2025 Tennis thread

[Erick Estrada]

You can see the difference between the players for Alcaraz it's a matter of how often he can hit that peak level which he did in the first set but abandoned him for the rest of the match, while Sinner just maintained his high level of play from start to finish and took care of business.

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Liam Draxl won the Winnipeg Challenger event earlier today and will have a career high ranking of #121 on Monday.

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Originally Posted by Izzle

Sinner's strengths are amplified in hard courts. You'd have to think he's got AUS and US down barring injury. FO and Wimbledon is a bit more of a toss up.

Sinner's height and serve will help him sustain Wimbledon. He ups his rally tolerance on clay and maybe a calendar slam is on the cards.

This was a big win by Jannik to stop the Charlie streak of victories in the H2H and send a strong message that he's not going to be able to waltz to wins at Wimbledon. The most impressive thing to me is that he stepped up the aggression in the 4th set and played to win the match and not even chancing things going to a 5th set.

[Inglewood Jack]

Originally Posted by Izzle

Sinner's strengths are amplified in hard courts. You'd have to think he's got AUS and US down barring injury. FO and Wimbledon is a bit more of a toss up.

Sinner's height and serve will help him sustain Wimbledon. He ups his rally tolerance on clay and maybe a calendar slam is on the cards.

I don’t even think he has to do much of anything more on clay. Nerves and god mode Carlos are the only reasons we’re not already preparing to watch his calendar slam coronation in eight weeks. Especially if this new tactic of moving forward to starve opponents of time sticks. I would like to be in the lab to see what Carlos and his team cook up as a counter for this.

[Izzle]

Originally Posted by Inglewood Jack

I don’t even think he has to do much of anything more on clay. Nerves and god mode Carlos are the only reasons we’re not already preparing to watch his calendar slam coronation in eight weeks. Especially if this new tactic of moving forward to starve opponents of time sticks. I would like to be in the lab to see what Carlos and his team cook up as a counter for this.

Dimitrov honorary coach for Carlos incoming!

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I don't like this, but I don't think even Uncle Toni can remove all the built-up mental scar tissue...

https://twitter.com/user/status/1944743298175811649

[Inglewood Jack]

as bad as it sounds, I hope that he finds the same kind of success that he did coaching Felix...

[Nadal Fan]

Uncle Toni was a great coach for a young Nadal but it was clear in 2015-2016 Nadal's career looked to be done. Changing to Moya enabled Nadal to win an insane 8 more majors from 2017-2022.

[Izzle]

https://hughclarke.substack.com/p/al...imbledon-final

"[Alcaraz] has a habit of letting his level rise and fall like some King tide, dictated less by celestial bodies and more by scoreboard mass; so good in big moments, so careless in inconsequential ones, so much so that they end up having some consequence."

So right.

[Inglewood Jack]

I don't know if a player that has built his game around improvisation can ever be as consistent as someone with much more predictable patterns like Sinner. Against Carlos, the danger is never knowing what type of ball is coming next. Against Carrot, chances are you can guess what the next ball is, but you still can't do anything about it.

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Throwback Tuesday tweet...

https://twitter.com/user/status/1945145447053508757

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I don't know how you're going to spoil anything when you lose in the first round of a grand slam, but hey, whatever helps you sleep at night...

https://twitter.com/user/status/1945109926528921656